The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 2Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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Page 715
... European Powers , and well in advance of Russia . She completely dispelled the persuasion that Asia was in some irrevocable way hopelessly behind Europe . She made all European progress seem sluggish and tentative in comparison . The ...
... European Powers , and well in advance of Russia . She completely dispelled the persuasion that Asia was in some irrevocable way hopelessly behind Europe . She made all European progress seem sluggish and tentative in comparison . The ...
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... Europe , the population , with suburbs , being 3,800,000 . The Hohenzollerns made Berlin their principal home in the middle of the fifteenth century , and it was Frederick the Great who began to give Berlin the character and appearance ...
... Europe , the population , with suburbs , being 3,800,000 . The Hohenzollerns made Berlin their principal home in the middle of the fifteenth century , and it was Frederick the Great who began to give Berlin the character and appearance ...
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... Europe shrank to little more than Constantinople and its neighbourhood , while even this restricted area was ad- ministered by the Allies , and it seemed as though at last the old conquerors would be driven " bag and baggage " out of ...
... Europe shrank to little more than Constantinople and its neighbourhood , while even this restricted area was ad- ministered by the Allies , and it seemed as though at last the old conquerors would be driven " bag and baggage " out of ...
Contents
INDIA Concluded | 501 |
MALAYA BORNEO AND HONG KONG | 527 |
AUSTRALIA | 531 |
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